The 31st High1 Seoul Music Awards (SMA) ceremony was held on Jan. 23 at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul to honor outstanding artists who released music in 2021. K-pop boy band NCT 127 emerged as the biggest winner of the night, taking home the “daesang” or grand prize. (Clockwise from top left)...
Music research and analytics platform Viberate published its annual “State of Music” report, highlighting the artists that dominated social media and music apps in 2021 and the trends that will be hot in 2022. Viberate analyzed massive amounts of data (more than a trillion data points,...
The 64th Annual Grammy Awards show has been reset to April 3 after it was postponed due to the concerns about the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. The Recording Academy issued a statement on Jan. 18 to say that the music awards show, to be hosted by “The Daily Show”...
K-pop boy band ENHYPEN sold more than 500,000 copies of their new album “Dimension: Answer.” ENHYPEN released “Dimension: Answer” on Jan. 10, a repackaged version of their first studio album “Dimension: Dilemma,” which came out last Oct. 12. According to Hanteo Chart, “Dimension:...
Apparel, stationery, and even household items that will make any army member giddy The Filipino army fans have proven that they can't get enough of BTS, and with the success of its first BTS pop-up store last year, SM Megamall is offering another wave of cute merchandise at the BTS Pop-up: Space of...
2PM’s Junho, BTS’ Jimin, Kang Daniel, BTS’ Jin and ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo topped the brand reputation index for individual K-pop boy band members for the month of January. The Korea Corporate Research Institute analyzed 113.48 million pieces of brand big data covering 703 members of K-pop boy...
A total of 57.09 million physical copies of K-pop albums were sold in 2021, according to Korea’s Gaon Music Chart. The total is an increase of 15.38 million albums, or 37 percent, compared to 41.7 million copies of K-pop albums sold in 2020. The total physical album sales in 2021 were based on...
K-pop superstars BTS, NCT, EXO, Seventeen and TWICE emerged as the top five K-pop artists with the highest album sales in the last 11 years from 2011 to 2021. This is based on the annual cumulative album sales data released by Gaon Music Chart covering the period January 2011 to November 2021,...
There are three more upcoming releases from Artist-Made collection by BTS Before 2021 ended, Hybe merch dropped the schedule of releases for the Artist-Made collection by BTS. The collection features merchandise designed by each member of the chart-topping group with Jin leading the drop last Jan....
K-pop boy band and “million seller” ENHYPEN made their comeback on Jan. 10 with the release of their new album “Dimension: Answer.” This is the repackaged version of their first studio album “Dimension: Dilemma,” which was released last Oct. 12. According to Hanteo Chart, “Dimension:...
BTS Since the majority of Metro Manila peeps are quarantined for at least five days due to the Omicron virus (Thank God! It’s a mild one), here are several shows I recommend on several streaming platforms while you are quarantined in your home. This will surely take your headache out naturally in...
The 36th Golden Disc Awards (GDA) ceremony was held on Jan. 8 at the Seoul Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul to honor outstanding artists. BTS and IU emerged as the biggest winners of the night. BTS won the disc “daesang” (grand prize) for Album of the Year for “BE” and IU took home the digital...
